, Communication and Cognition [SCC] 7

Semiotics Continues to Astonish

Thomas A. Sebeok and the Doctrine of Signs

Bearbeitet von Paul Cobley, , ,

1. Auflage 2011. Buch. XII, 538 S. Hardcover ISBN 978 3 11 025319 1 Format (B x L): 15,5 x 23 cm Gewicht: 904 g

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Chapter 1 Introduction: Thomas A. Sebeok: Biography and 20th century role. . 1 Paul Cobley, John Deely, Kalevi Kull and Susan Petrilli

Part I. Essays Chapter 2 Tackling Tom, lumper and splitter par excellence ...... 19 Myrdene Anderson

Chapter 3 When anecdotes are no longer what they used to be ...... 31 Lisa Block de Behar

Chapter 4 Ethology and the Sebeokian way from to cyber(bio)semiotics ...... 41 Søren Brier

Chapter 5 Sebeok’s panopticon ...... 85 Paul Cobley

Chapter 6 The semiotic foundations of knowledge: Remembering Thomas A. Sebeok ...... 115

Chapter 7 Thomas A. Sebeok and semiotics of the 21st century...... 123 John Deely

Chapter 8 Traduttore traditore? ...... 161 Dinda L. Gorle´e

Chapter 9 Astonishing life...... 191 Jesper Ho¤meyer x Contents

Chapter 10 Semiotics, biology, and the adaptionist theory of literature and the arts ...... 207 Jørgen Dines Johansen

Chapter 11 The architect of : Thomas A. Sebeok and biology . . . . 223 Kalevi Kull

Chapter 12 Tom’s often neglected other theoretical source ...... 251 floyd merrell

Chapter 13 We got to know his method ...... 281 Ivan Mladenov

Chapter 14 About a master of signs starting from The & Its Masters .... 293 Susan Petrilli

Chapter 15 A tribute to Thomas A. Sebeok ...... 307 Susan Petrilli and

Chapter 16 Thomas A. Sebeok, hybrid joke-teller...... 331 Augusto Ponzio

Chapter 17 Thomas A. Sebeok, a portrait of a Finnougrian semiotician ...... 343 Eero Tarasti

Chapter 18 Sebo k Tama´s – Identity and integrity...... 355 Vilmos Voigt Chapter 19 Birth of a notion ...... 365 W. C. Watt Chapter 20 Thomas A. Sebeok: On semiotics of history and history of semiotics 371 Brooke Williams Deely Contents xi

Part II. Vignettes and stories Chapter 21 Ubiquity...... 419 Lisa Block de Behar Chapter 22 Un Sacco di Cane...... 425 Paul Cobley Chapter 23 Tom Sebeok, Hoosier ...... 427 Donald Cunningham Chapter 24 Tom Sebeok, the man who loved time ...... 431 John Deely Chapter 25 Brief encounters with Thomas A. Sebeok ...... 435 Mariana Net¸ Chapter 26 Speaking and writing about Thomas A. Sebeok – This is a way of thinking ...... 445 Maria Popova Chapter 27 Summing up: In lieu of an introduction...... 451

Part III. Letters Chapter 28 Anderson letter of 13 May 2002 ...... 461 Chapter 29 Eco letter of 11 January 2002 ...... 465 Chapter 30 Hamp letter of 2 January 2002 ...... 467 Chapter 31 Remak letter of 24 December 2001 ...... 469 Chapter 32 Watt letter of 5 January 2002 ...... 471 xii Contents

Part IV. The Tartu connection Chapter 33 The Tartu connection: Sebeok’s correspondence with Juri Lotman . . 473 Introduced and edited by Tuuli Raudla and Tanel Pern

Part V. Final resting place Burial site marker and co-ordinates ...... 485 Part VI. Photographs Twenty-seven pictures ...... 489

Notes on contributors ...... 505 Index ...... 515